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Re: UTTERLY O/T. NEED FILM CUTTING ROOM - 13 years agoHope that works out for you. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: iMac 27 - 13 years agoThose cheap SOBs at Apple also only give us a single 800 port on all of the new MBPs except the 17". Wish I would have had the extra $$ to get one instead of my 15". Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: The logic of linking - 13 years agoNormally I just deselect Ch3 and Ch4 for the low end P2 cameras during log and transfer but these were given to me as QuickTimes so I had no choice but to manually delete them.by Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: The logic of linking - 13 years agoThanks Derek. You rock! I really appreciate the tips, it will save me a lot of time. I knew that there must be a way to do it but couldn't divine these from the manual. Cheers, Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA The logic of linking - 13 years agoHi all: What is the logic behind that you can highlight multiple clips in the timeline and unlink them all at once, yet you can only link clips one at a time? Is there some hidden keyboard shortcut beyond command-L that I should know? I am working with DVCPRO HD clips that were given to me as QTs, not as MXFs so I could not log and transfer them with only audio Ch1 and Ch2 intact, ignoringby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: iMac 27 - 13 years agoStrypes, in his situation, would the deck be the slowest device? I have new 15" MBP, same issue. Or would a Firewire hub be any better? Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: UTTERLY O/T. NEED FILM CUTTING ROOM - 13 years agoTalk to: Eric M. Klein Digital Intermediate Producer Digital Post Services - DPS: Hollywood 712 Seward Street Hollywood, CA 90038 (310) 312-9060 eklein@digitalpostservices.com Eric has S16 and 35mm film cutting rooms. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: FCP in the workplace. - 13 years agoAs someone who grew up on FCP, but is not a professional editor, who also put in four years at an AVID only production company, I am inclined to basically agree with ianedit. Most of the best editors I have worked with in the past five years are AVID editors who learned FCP. Some hate FCP, some love it, but in general, lots of self-taught FCP editors have never worked at a post house, have neverby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Audio EQ/mix suggestions? - 13 years agoWelcome to high end broadcast video production circa 2010. What is acceptable quality to many is plummeting by the minute. Don't hire a competent crew, just whip out your Flip and shoot a television show. Yeesh. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: LA Avid UG? - 13 years agoI want MC5. Hmm...my daughter is a student, maybe I can swing it as long as I have her teach it to me? ;-)by Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Happy Tenth Birthday LAFCPUG! - 13 years agoMike: My most sincere congratulations to you for keeping it going and growing for a decade. I can't believe that we met at that first meeting in Burbank ten years ago. I am very proud of what you have turned the once ultra grass roots small group of people using this new thing called Final Cut Pro running on those B&W G3s into what it is today, a world famous go-to resource for all thingsby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Is it possible to turn a .MOV back into .MFX on P2? - 13 years agoI did some more research and I think the most economical solution, if not the fastest and least hassle, is to hook up the FW output of a DVCAM deck or DV camera to the FW input of the HPX170 and just "dub" the material over to P2, which I have never tried. But it should work according to the manual. Once recorded on the HPX170, I can just hookup the SDI out to the Kona and away I go.by Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Is it possible to turn a .MOV back into .MFX on P2? - 13 years agoWith some research, I think I answered my own question. But 399 Euros? I don't think so, I can buy hardware for that kind of money. Might just behoove me to rent a DVCAM deck with SDI I guess? Anyone have a better or cheaper solution? Thanks, Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Is it possible to turn a .MOV back into .MFX on P2? - 13 years agoHi all: Trying to solve another problem here. I am going to be shooting a concert on 4-6 cameras. The cameras are a huge mish-mosh of formats and frame rates. Since I know a lot about P2, I would think that I would know the answer to this but I don't. Is there a way to take a QuickTime of say, Mini DV, that was shot on tape and then was captured into FCP, export it and somehow convert it intoby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: I've got all of these formats you see - 13 years agoHi all: Thanks for the advice. FWIW, I have found in testing that my results echo Shane's. I never use Pro Res HQ for many reasons, I have been extremely happy with just regular Pro Res. I have to decide if I want to cut this on my Intel laptop (this new MBP is pretty fast, even though I have the bottom of the line 2.4 GHz i5) or on the G5. Slower processor obviously but the RAID is prettyby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: I've got all of these formats you see - 13 years agoHave you ever tried turning interlaced into progressive though? That is my main concern. I have turned progressive into interlaced with good results but our on-line editor always told me that turning interlaced into progressive was a bad thing. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA I've got all of these formats you see - 13 years agoHi all: A question for the genius editorial brain trust here. Finally prepping material for a DP reel. I have the following source material to work with: 1. DVCPRO HD 720/24pN (most of the material is in this bin) 2. DVCPRO HD 1080/24pA 3. DVCPRO HD 1080/60i 4. AVC INTRA100 720/24pN 5. Uncompressed 1080/24p QT of a show that I shot, but did not edit I would like to output a nice quaby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: A Good Editor?? - 13 years agoI would be curious to know if these Variety/Hollywood Reporter terms came from the old days of the 1940s Hollywood gossip mavens like Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper? They seem like a throwback to the era of calling Hollywood "Tinseltown" B.O. = box office (it can be a coincidence that this term also stinks as body odor) pics = movies or films From Wikipedia... Foby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT Stock Footage (Asia) - 13 years agoI am amazed nobody listed the cheapest and probably one of the largest Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Insane Canon XH-A1 Capture/input/playback issue - 14 years agoHi Dan; Your issue sounds like an HDV playback problem, not a computer problem. Some things to try... 1. Take the problem tapes and FF them to the end of the tape and rewind them 3-4 times. If there is some flaking oxide or particulate on the tapes themselves, this could possibly jar the offending particles loose. 2. Try playing the tapes back on a different camera and or deck. If the rby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: ACE Blog Slams FCP - 14 years agoMike, you know how long it has been since I have been to a meeting. If you set that up, I will be there as it is something that truly interests me and could have an impact on my business. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Questions for any Phantom experienced editors. - 14 years agoNoah will be a good lead and if I was producing this series (I will be pitching a show this Summer that will use some high speed photography), I would make a couple of friendly calls to colleagues who are already producing shows that use the Phantom on a regular basis like: 1. BASE Productions - Fight Science on Nat Geo 2. Workaholic Productions - Extreme Marksmen on History Both are LA-by Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: What have you successfully used for a global workflow? - 14 years agoHi Shane: I know, I love iChat but the film I shot last year, the producer/director and the rest of the team were on PCs so we used Skype, which worked okay I guess. But the iChat Theater Preview seems like a cool feature. Here is a link with more about the AVID demo I feel that AVID will ship a reliable and solid version of this at some point. They had no comment on how they will implemeby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: What have you successfully used for a global workflow? - 14 years agoHi Shane: Thanks, that is some good input. How did the clients review cuts in your workflow and give you notes or were they at your place in person? Just posted QTs or some other method? Did you end up using iChat Theater Preview or have you ever used it on a project? I think one of the challenging things is that it seems as if everyone wants different things from their remote workflows, fby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: What have you successfully used for a global workflow? - 14 years agoSo I take it that nobody has used these kinds of workflows here? Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA What have you successfully used for a global workflow? - 14 years agoHi all: I am working on an article for an industry magazine about global and remote workflows, both high tech and low tech. You know the drill, production in South America, editorial is in the U.S., VFX and CGI might be in Asia, tight deadline, need a collaborative work flow, even though everyone is in different countries. I am working on the angles below but I would welcome any suggestions, fby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: How do I get rid of that "Digital" look? - 14 years agoIt does seem a bit off that you shot with the HVX200, one of the softest and noisiest of all of the prosumer cameras, yet your picture still looks too "digital". If you lit your scenes flatly, without depth, dimension and Chiaroscuro then all of the post tricks in the world aren't going to make it look very "un-digital". This is a gross generalization but generally, digitby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: DEDE ALLEN gone at 86 - 14 years agoYou have Dede to thank for J and L cuts, the popularity of the jump cut and "shock cuts" RIP Dede. From Film Reference.com... "With Bonnie and Clyde (the first of six films with Arthur Penn), Allen further developed the principle of the jump cut by marrying it to classical Hollywood editing and television commercial editing. Instead of using the jump cut as a modernist reby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: New blackmagic product - 14 years agojeff: Do you ever sleep? I can always count on your to educate me about technologies I have never even heard of. ;-) Thanks, Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA |
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